TRIP INDEX

The following birding trips have been 'blogged'.  All the older ones use scanned slides or digitised prints of varying quality.  All are heavily reliant on unreliable memories as only for the 1982 Asian trip did I make anything other than very rudimentary diary entries.  The blogs are done mainly to find a 'home' for my boxes of old slides but may be of wider interest. Other trips will be added as and when time allows.

ARGENTINA:  August 1990
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1990_08_01_archive.html

BRAZIL:  July/August 1988

http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1988_07_01_archive.html
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1988_08_01_archive.html

CANADA:  May 1980
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1980_05_01_archive.html

CANARIES:  June/July 1979
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1979_07_01_archive.html

CHINA:  May/June 2010

Shanghai (Spoon-billed Sandpiper), Wuishan & Fuzhou (Chinese Crested Tern) http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/2010_05_01_archive.html

Pingtai (Jankowski’s Bunting)

http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/china-3-5-june-2010-pingtai-xiainghai.html

CORSICA:  May 2013
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/corsica-col-de-sorba-restonica-valley.html

COSTA RICA:  July/August 1985
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1985_08_01_archive.html

ETHIOPIA:  February 2011

http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/2011_02_01_archive.html

INDIA:  June/July 1982

Ladakh

http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1982_06_01_archive.html

Kashmir

http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1982_07_01_archive.html

INDONESIA:  August 1992  Sulawesi & Halmahera
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1992_08_01_archive.html
                       August 1993 Irian Jaya
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1993_08_01_archive.html
                       August 2013 West Papua (Irian Jaya)
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/2013_08_01_archive.html

ISRAEL:  March/April 1979
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1979_04_01_archive.html

KENYA:  December 1977/January 1978
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1977_12_01_archive.html
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1978_01_01_archive.html
                July/August 1983
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1983_08_01_archive.html

MADAGASCAR:  August 1995
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1995_08_01_archive.html

MALAYSIA:  January/February 1982 West Malaysia

http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1982_01_01_archive.html

                      July/August 2012 Sarawak & Sabah

Kuching, Kinabatangan River, Danum Valley, Sepilok and Mount Kinabalu

http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/2012_08_01_archive.html

MOROCCO:  April 1977
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1977_04_01_archive.html

NEPAL:  November 1979-January 1980
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1979_11_01_archive.html
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1979_12_01_archive.html
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1980_01_01_archive.html
                March/June 1982

Jomson Trek

http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1982_03_01_archive.html

Everest Trek

http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1982_04_01_archive.html

Langtang Trek

http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/2012_05_01_archive.html

PAPUA NEW GUINEA:  June 2004
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/2004_06_01_archive.html

PERU: July/August 1984
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1984_08_01_archive.html

PHILIPPINES: Easter 1996
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1996_04_01_archive.html
                           Easter 2008
coming next

SOUTH AFRICA:  August 1991
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1991_08_01_archive.html

TAIWAN:  April/May 2011

http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/2011_04_01_archive.html

THAILAND:   December 1978/January 1979
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1978_12_01_archive.html
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1979_01_01_archive.html
                      December 1980/January 1981                     
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1980_12_01_archive.html
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1981_01_01_archive.html
                      February 1982

http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1982_02_01_archive.html

TURKEY:  June 2012

Demirkazik

http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/04-june-2012-demirkazik.html

Birecik

http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/06-june-2012-birecik-and-durnalik.html

Nemrut Dagi

http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/08-june-2012-nemrut-dagi.html

UGANDA:  June 2010

Mbamba (Shoebill), Kibale (Green-breasted Pitta) & Bwindi (African Green Broadbill)

http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/2010_06_01_archive.html

VENEZUELA: December 1982/February 1983
Henri Pittier, the Andes and the Llanos
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1983_01_01_archive.html
Bolivar and the north coast
http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1983_02_01_archive.html

VIETNAM:  April 2009

Cat Tien & Da Lat plateau 

http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/2009_04_01_archive.html

Pagham and Lidsey (02 March 2014)

Another day in West Sussex with John King who I met opposite Brooklands after visiting there (Water Rail and 2 adult Little Gulls), the Adur (red-head Goosander opposite the airport) and Widewater (2 divers E). There were 8 Mediterranean Gulls at Goring Gap including a Belgian/Dutch bird 3C66.  We continued to Pagham Lagoon and the harbour entrance overlooking the Spit.  We saw 3 Goldeneye (one drake), at least 164 Mediterranean Gulls, the first-winter Iceland Gull, two colour-ringed Herring Gulls (an unread North Thames bird and one seemingly from Suffolk) and 3 Sandwich Terns.  We went on to the North Wall where the pair of Whooper Swans spent much of the time asleep.  We returned via Littlehampton but the tide was high and only 2 Mediterranean and the second-winter Glaucous Gulls were seen although we aborted after 10-15 minutes when we heard the Glossy Ibis at Lidsey had been seen again.

Goosander on he Adur by Shoreham Airport

one of the recent Widewater birds?

Little Gull on Brooklands, pretending to be a Wrybill

difficult to resist going back for more

colour-ringed Mediterranean Gull 3C66 at Goring Gap

it is in its tenth year having hatched at Noordelijk Insteekdok, Oost-Vlaandreren, Belgium on 26/05/2005.  It was seen at Le Portel in August 2005, Wissant in September 2005, Le Plaitier d'Oye Plage in May 2006, Le Portel again in July 2007 (all Pas-de-Calais), Noordelijk Insteekdok during April-June 2008 and West Hayling LNR, Hants in March 2010 and February-March 2011

Herring Gull VPT, ringed as a chick on Havergate Island, Orford, Suffolk on 7 July 2013

Mediterranean Gulls on the end of Pagham Spit

most were adults

but not all

they certainly outnumbers Black-headeds

Two of three Sandwich Terns roosting with them

Iceland Gull on Pagham Spit

the paler patch in the centre of its breast was often more noticeable than it appears here.  Perhaps some form of oiling or chemical spillage? 

Whooper Swans at Pagham North Wall

Glossy Ibis at Lidsey

synchronised feeding, almost

East Head and Thorney Deeps (01 March 2014)

1 March 2014.  I went to East Head with John King.  The water level in Snowhill Marsh was the highest I can remember with few islands for waders to roost on although we did see 3 Spotted Redshank.  The small marshy area in the dune slacks was also flooded but 2 Sky Larks and 2 Meadow Pipits were singing nearby. We walked to the end of the Head with the tide coming in fast seeing 5 Great Northern Divers, 21 Red-breasted Mergansers, 2 Sandwich Terns and the superb Snow Bunting.  We then drove round to Thorney and walked down the west side to the Great Deep.  Here there were 27 Red-breasted Mergansers, 2 Spotted Redshank, 18 Greenshanks, a Rock Pipit (flight views only) and Barry Collins on his bike.  Heading back home we called in at Brooklands where the three Little Gulls were almost constantly flying around, although usually at the far side of the lake.  I then called in at the Adur where the tide hadn't fallen quite enough and single Little and Great Crested Grebes were seen.

Snow Bunting at East Head

Spotted Redshank on Snowhill Marsh

Little Gull on Brooklands

some very dark images as the camera was inadvertently set to under-expose by 5 stops

exposure better

then the autofocus stopped working, but note the rich pink flush

nice when the less pink individual landed on the water and I could go back to digiscoping

brilliant birds

28 February 2014.  Mistle Thrush singing at the Univesity.

26 February 2914.  2 Little Grebes and 3 Red-breasted Mergansers on Southwick Canal and Herring Gull A4AH at the University.

25 February 2014.  A Peregrine on Southwick Power Station chimney and 20+ Brent Geese noticed flying east off Hove.

24 February 2014.  2 Little Grebes and 3 Red-breasted Mergansers on Southwick Canal and a Peregrine on the Power Station chimney.